Dataviz

^ Up | Screenshots of the visualizations contained in the Dataviz package. From left to right: Twitter dataselfies, medical information and Panama Papers. Click on each image for more details.

A companion package for the Grafoscopio project including domain specific visualizations for data activism and data storytelling.

Important: This is the source code repository. For installation and issues please visit the Documentation Repository.

Why two source code repositories?

We split the repositories in two because the Fossil powered one is well suited for files and tickets, while the SmalltalkHub one is best suited for Smalltalk source code. For historical reasons, different Smalltalk communities developed and hosted their source code there, which gives them the autonomy of a simple and self-contained DVCS, that was wrote in the language they knew. That was before the popularity of DVCS advanced by Git and GitHub, and now most projects are being migrated to GitHub to get more visibility and improve collaboration (SmalltalkHub uses an simple optimistic versioning system that is showing its age), while sacrificing autonomy, simplicity and self-containment. We think that Fossil as a back end could provide the advantages of a modern DVCS, while keeping the properties we like to have regarding autonomy, simplicity and self-containment and avoiding the paradoxical and excesive centralization that GitHub brings to the web. At some point we hope that the work is being done in the Git/GitHub front to migrate source code from Smalltalk would be useful to host a single Fossil repository containing software and documentation (and issues for both). Meanwhile, we will split them in the ones mentioned before.